Envisioning an Agent-OS for Autonomous Cooperative Systems

Author

Maturana, Francisco P. ; Tichy, P. ; Vrba, Pavel

Author_Institution

Rockwell Autom., Mayfield Hts.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

8-11 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

718

Lastpage

723

Abstract

The autonomous cooperative system environment was built as a low priority control task inside programmable logical controllers. It added the functionality of an agent-based operating system. The ACS kernel evolved in this manner for a long time almost independent of the controller operating system. Although ACS has been successfully deployed on commercial controllers, new releases of Logix will cause complications in the integration of the software and adoption of future functionality. There is necessity to evolve ACS to be seamless integrated with the controllers. This new challenge implies changes to the Logix OS for the creation of the agents. There are critical implications that would radically affect the agent infrastructure. In this document, we discuss the results of the transformation.

Keywords

control engineering computing; multi-agent systems; operating systems (computers); programmable controllers; ACS kernel; Logix OS; agent-OS; agent-based operating system; autonomous cooperative system environment; controller operating system; programmable logical controllers; Automatic control; Automation; Buildings; Control systems; Cooperative systems; Hardware; Intelligent agent; Operating systems; Process control; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0099-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0100-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384471

Filename

4273918